News
New publication by SHOC member Anne Winter
We are proud to announce a new publication by SHOC member Anne Winter! ‘To Help Him Recover from His Losses’: Royal Begging Licences in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760s-1780s is now available online via this link.Goodbye and thank you, Heidi!
These days it is slightly quieter in the corridors between offices, and at the lunch table there is just a little less exuberant laughter.Nicolas Brenninkmeijer joins SHOC
Nicolas Brenninkmeijer joins HOST as a PhD student on the project “Wealth inequality and its intergenerational persistence in Belgium (19th-20th centuries)”. He is supervised by prof. dr. Wouter Ryckbosch at the VUB, and profs. drs.SHOC at Science Day (Dag van de Wetenschap)!
Last Sunday, SHOC was present at the Science Festival Brussels on the occasion of the Day of Science (Dag van de Wetenschap)!Ellen Roelandts joins SHOC
Ellen Roelandts joins HOST as a PhD researcher on the joint doctoral project ‘Attitudes towards wealth and redistribution in Belgium since the 19th century’. The project is a cooperation between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).Etienne Gotard joins SHOC
Etienne Gontard joins SHOC as a PhD student on the FORAGENCY project, supervised by Benoît Henriet.Thijs Costers joins SHOC
In October 2023, Thijs Costers has joined SHOC on the FORAGENCY project, researching foraging, colonialism and more-than-human agency in colonial Central Africa. Specifically, Thijs’ PhD-research will focus on how intoxicating substances were produced, distributed and consumed.Margot Luyckfasseel joins SHOC
In September 2023, FEDtWIN researcher Margot Luyckfasseel joined SHOC.Bas Spliet joins SHOC
Bas Spliet ( ° 1995) joins SHOC as a joined PhD student from Antwerp University. He obtained his Master in History summa cum laude from the University of Ghent, where he also attained a Bachelor in History and a Bachelor in Arabic and Islamic Studies.Save the date: November, 16/17 - Food, Rules, and the City
We are delighted to share the following good news with you ! On 16 and 17 November, the congress "Food, Rules and the City" will take place.Conference Food, Rules and The City: call for papers
On the 16th and 17th November 2023 HOST-members Robin Rose Southard and Dennis De Vriese, in cooperation with Nicolas Brunmayr (ULB), are organizing Food, Rules and the City, an international conference on food market regulation in the long term held on the VUB and ULB campuses.Brussels Seminar in Economic and Social History with Jane Humphries
We are pleased to announce an upcoming seminar with Jane Humphries, Professor of economic history at Oxford University.Call for Participation – Masterclass Beat Kümin ‘Remembering From Below’ – deadline 14 October 2022
UPDATE The application deadline for the Masterclass 'Remembering from Below' has been postponed to Wednesday 19/10. There are still places available! In order to download the Call for Participation, please click on the link below:Call for Papers: Dag van de Belgische Migratiegeschiedenis 2022
De vijfde editie zal plaatsvinden op donderdag 29 september 2022 in Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis te Gent. De Dag van de Belgische Migratiegeschiedenis is in 2022 toe aan zijn vijfde editie.Poverty and housing culture in Brussels, 1702-1802
Since September 2021, Thijs Costers interns as a student-researcher at HOST, within the ‘Talent voor Onderzoek’ [=Talent for Research] project.Expo Re/Building Brussels
Van 10 februari tot 27 maart vindt in de Sint-Gorikshallen in Brussel de tentoonstelling 'Re/Building Brussels ' plaats, over het heden en verleden van de Brusselse bouwsector, met onder meer HOST-leden Heidi Denewet en Matthijs Degraeve als curators.
Events
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SHOC Seminar with Ann McCants (MIT) & Bas Spliet (UAntwerpen / VUB)
A Uniquely Comprehensive Social View of Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
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SHOC Seminar with Auke Rijpma (Utrecht University)
Migration for necessity or proficiency: The Netherlands, 1750-1920
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SHOC Seminar with Samuël Coghe
(Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s
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SHOC Seminar: Maarten Couttenier (Royal Museum for Central Africa)
"Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)"
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SHOC seminar with Maarten Couttenier
"Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)"
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SHOC Seminar with Elise Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
“Human Beings Are Too Cheap in India”: Wages and Work Organization as Business Strategies in Bombay’s Late Colonial Textile Industry.
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SHOC Seminar with Peter Wilson (University of Oxford)
"Urban Hubs in Europe’s Fiscal-Military System, 1530-1870"
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Lecture by Prof. dr. Stacey Hynd (University of Exeter): ‘Children at War: Histories of Child Soldiering in Africa’s Conflicts, c. 1940-2000’
We cordially invite you to this event, organised as part of the DIGICOLJUST-2 and 'Rebel Soldiers on Trial' projects, organized in collaboration with the ULB.